Darby's translation notes (1890)
John 1:11
1:11 own, (g-5) Or, 'what was his own,' but the neuter is used by John in the most general way for persons.
1:11 own, (g-5) Or, 'what was his own,' but the neuter is used by John in the most general way for persons.
Verse John 1:11. _HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN_] τα ιδια - to those of his own _family, city, country:-and his own people_, οιιδιοι-his own _citizens, brethren, subjects_. The _Septuagint, Josephus_, and _Ar...
HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN - His own “land” or “country.” It was called his land because it was the place of his birth, and also because it was the chosen land where God delighted to dwell and to manifest h...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE WORK OF THE LIGHT BEFORE THE INCARNATION. But in truth the light, which lighteth every man, was always coming into the world. Possibly John 1:9 means that when John was witnessing, the true light...
HE CAME TO HIS OWN, AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT. It is stated above that he _was_ in the world, from the beginning. Here it is stated that he _came,_ to his own, when he came to Judea as the son of M...
He was in the world, and, although the world came into being through him, the world did not recognize him. It was into his own home that he came, and his own people did not welcome him. When John wro...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
When the world had its beginning, the Word was already there; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God. This Word was in the beginning with God. He was the agent through whom all things were ma...
HE CAME. Denoting the definite historical fact. unto. Greek. _eis._ App-104. HIS OWN. Neut. plural: i.e. His own things, or posses sions. Supply _ktemata_ (possessions), as in Matthew 19:22. Compare M...
John 1:1-18. The Prologue or Introduction That the first eighteen verses are introductory is universally admitted: commentators are not so unanimous as to the main divisions of this introduction. A d...
_unto his own_ In the Greek the first -own" is neuter, the second is masculine, and this difference should be preserved: _He came unto His own_ INHERITANCE; _and His own_ PEOPLE _received Him not_(see...
ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἼΔΙΑ. The difference between neuter and masculine must be preserved: _He came to His own_ INHERITANCE; _and His own_ PEOPLE _received Him not_. In the parable of the Wicked Husbandmen (Matthew...
THE WORD REVEALED TO MEN AND REJECTED BY THEM...
1–18. The Prologue or Introduction in three parts. 1–5: The Word in His own nature. 6–13: His Revelation to men and rejection by them. 14–18: His Revelation of the Father. The three great characterist...
VER 11. HE CAME TO HIS OWN, AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT. 12. BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD, EVEN TO THEM THAT BELIEVE ON HIS NAME: 13. WHICH WERE BORN,...
_THE ETERNAL "WORD" OF GOD IS JESUS-- JOHN 1:1-18:_ Jesus is pictured as "the Word" who was in the beginning with God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....
ΪΔΙΑ _асс. n. pl. от_ ΊΔΙΟΣ (G2398) свой собственный, принадлежащий кому-л., личный. Относится к земле и народу Израиля, которые считались домом и семьей Бога (Westcott; NIDNTT, 2:838-39; W.Pryor, "Je...
DISCOURSE: 1596 BENEFIT OF RECEIVING CHRIST John 1:10. _He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many...
HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN,— "He came to the Jewish nation, who were under the most distinguished obligations to him, and to whom he had been expressly promised as their Messiah: _yet his own people did not...
THE WORD MANIFESTED TO THE JEWSTHEIR REJECTION OF HIM _Text 1:6-11_ 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, t...
EXPOSITORY SERMON NO. 1 THE BIRTH OF CHRIST INTERPRETED John 1:1-18 _Introduction_ I. TELL BIRTH STORY BRIEFLY (Luke 2:1-52). A. John's Prologue gives the definition of Christmas. B. Especiall...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:1-13 In the last chapter we stated, "Each book of the Bible has a prominent and dominant theme which is peculiar to itself. Just as each member in the human bo...
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN [ ta (G3588 ) idia (G2398 )], AND HIS OWN [ hoi (G3588)...
As God always was, there is no absolute beginning brought before us in the Scriptures. Both here and in Gen.11 the article _ the _ is lacking in the originals, showing that it refers to the commenceme...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
HE CAME, viz. at the Incarnation, UNTO HIS OWN (home), viz. the Holy Land; AND HIS OWN, i.e. the Jews, RECEIVED, i.e. believed, HIM NOT....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
He came, as distinct from the “was” of the previous verse, passes on to the historic advent; but as that was but the more distinct act of which there had been foreshadowings in every appearance and re...
CHAPTER 2 RECEPTION CHRIST MET WITH. John 1:1. In describing the Word of God, John mentions two attributes of His by which His relation to men becomes apparent: “All things were made by Him,” and “t...
εἰς τὰ ἴδια ἧλθεν, “He came to His own”. In the world of men was an inner circle which John calls τὰ ἴδια, His own home. (For the meaning of τὰ ἴδια _cf._ John 19:27; John 16:32; Acts 21:6 3Ma 6:27-37...
_The historic manifestation of the Logos and its results_....
THE LIGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR'S PATH John 1:1-13 The titles of our Lord are set forth in royal fashion. As speech reveals the hidden thoughts of men, so does our Lord utter the unseen God. God spake and...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
He came (r) unto his own, and his own received him not. (r) The Word showed himself again when he came in the flesh....
His own. This regards principally the Jews. Jesus came to them as into his own family, but they did not receive him. It may likewise be extended to the Gentiles, who had groaned so long a time in dark...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] VER. 11. “ _He came to His own and they that were His own received Him not._ ” A relation of gradation might be e...
SECOND SECTION: UNBELIEF. 1:5-11. This Logos, light of the world, appears in the world buried in the darkness of sin; He is not recognized and is rejected (John 1:5). And yet God had taken all precaut...
PROLOGUE: 1:1-18. EACH evangelist begins his book in a manner appropriate to the aim of his narrative. Matthew proposes to prove the _right_ of Jesus to the Messianic throne. He opens his story with H...
FIRST SECTION: THE LOGOS. 1:1-14. It would be difficult not to recognize in these first verses an allusion to the beginning of Genesis. The first words of the two writings manifestly correspond with e...
He was in the world, and the world was made by him; and the world knew him not. (11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (12) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to beco...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
11._He came into his own_. Here is displayed the absolutely desperate wickedness and malice of men; here is displayed their execrable impiety, that when the Son of God was manifested in flesh to the J...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN,.... Not all the world, who are his own by right of creation; for these, his own, are opposed to the world, and distinguished from them; and his coming to them designs some partic...
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. Ver. 11. _He came unto his own_] His peculiar picked people; as "touching the election, beloved for the Father's sake," Romans 11:28; (ownness make...
_He was in the world_ From the beginning, frequently appearing, and making known to his servants, the patriarchs and prophets, the divine will, in dreams and visions, and various other ways: _and the...
HIS OWN; his own land Judea, and his own people the Jews. RECEIVED HIM NOT; they did not believe on him, but rejected and crucified him....
HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN, AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT....
The relation of Jesus to the world:...
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
6-14 John the Baptist came to bear witness concerning Jesus. Nothing more fully shows the darkness of men's minds, than that when the Light had appeared, there needed a witness to call attention to i...
HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN; Christ came into the world, which being made by him, was in the most proper sense his own; or, to the Israelites, which were as his own house, land, and possession, PSALMS 85:1 1...
Tertullian On Monogamy And if I glance around at their examples-(examples) of some David heaping up marriages for himself even through sanguinary means, of some Solomon rich in wives as well as in ot...
John 1:11 came G2064 (G5627) to G1519 own G2398 and G2532 own G2398 not G3756 receive G3880 ...
The content of Jonah's prophecy, which is described in the usual terms of ‘the word of YHWH', is depicted as being that YHWH wanted the wickedness of Nineveh to be brought to the attention of its peop...
THE WORD WAS GOD (JOHN 1:1). John commences his Gospel by speaking of ‘the Word' (i.e. the One through Whom God has acted and spoken'), and later he adds, ‘all things were made by Him' (John 1:3) and...
‘He came to his own, and those who were his own did not receive him.' He came to His own ‘home' (ta idia - translated ‘home' correctly in Acts 21:6), and His own people received Him not. Here now it i...
John 1:11. HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN HOME, AND HIS OWN ACCEPTED HIM NOT. Is this verse practically a repetition of John 1:10, in language more solemn and emphatic? Or do we here pass from the thought of th...
The Prologue of the Gospel of John stands in the most intimate connection with the plan and purpose of the Gospel as a whole. It is not to be regarded as a philosophical speculation to which the histo...
UNTO HIS OWN (εις τα ιδια). Neuter plural, "unto his own things," the very idiom used in John 19:27 when the Beloved Disciple took the mother of Jesus "to his own home." The world was "the own home...
HE CAME That is, He came unto his own things, and his own people received him not....
John 1:11 Jewish Interpretation of Prophecy. I. To the Jew, the argument from Messianic prophecy should be irresistible for these two reasons: (i.) That, book by book, prophecy by prophecy, verse by...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
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GOD MADE THE WORLD THROUGH HIM. See Colossians 1:16. He was: in the world; God made the world through him; the world did not know him. HE CAME TO HIS OWN COUNTRY. When he became a human being, he took...
_He was in the world_ THE TREATMENT OF CHRIST BY MEN I. By the WORLD. 1. They were in a condition in which they might have known much of Him. He made the world and preserved it and was in it. Yet t...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:11 John moves from HIS OWN things (see esv footnote)—that is, creation—to HIS OWN PEOPLE, the Jews. The Jewish rejection of the Messiah is one of the book’s major emphases (se
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He came — In the fulness of time, to his own — Country, city, temple: And his own — People, received him not....